I'd also add the Fleet from Sacred Stones to the section at the end. They're battleship ballistas that only appear in Ephraim's chapter 10, there's only two of them, and they never appear again.
FE7 has funny enemies like the random female sniper in Eliwood's durandal map and then the female nomads in HHM ch19 and female druids in HHM cog of destiny who both have male battle sprites when you attack them
Shout out to the random sole berserker in fe3 (appears only in ch11 and there's only 1) No he's not an axe infantry, but a reskinned hero carrying a master sword. In FE12, he becomes a swordmaster
Two things. Faceless in Fates lorewise are used to attack Hoshido since they can pass through the barrier Mikoto created. Second in Engage its explained that Sombrons corrupted are mindless zombies and the ones that retain their personality are created by Veyle seen in Hyacinth and then Sombron powered by the rings created Lumera. In the DLC the spoiler antagonist has this ability too.
2:50 "with a different hairstyle" that's only true for the portraits. For their models in battle they directly reuse Rinea's model, just with the size scaling changed slightly. As a result, they visibly have Rinea's hairstyle on their model.
Personally, i like monsters as enemies. as seeing the same humanoids over and over, can feel a bit repetitive. so the odd creature here or there helps.
The Stoneborns absolutely terrified me when I encountered them for the first time. By far the most uncomfortable I’ve ever felt playing FE xD I just discovered your channel and I love it, I need to start playing these games again!
I mean it was literally stated in game why some corrupted are different. The soldiers are made by sombron, they require less power to “resurrect”. Corrupted like Morion require more effort, and later hyacint & alear are made by Veyle who has a unique talent in creating corrupted more like their human selves. And lastly, Lumerra was made by Sombron after acquiring the strength he needed from the 12 rings. So…
honestly surprised that birthright garon wasn't mentioned, but he is quite an anomaly in of himself, so i can't fault you for that. i personally love the idea of weird monstrous enemies existing in the FEH multiverse. it adds to the fantastical nature of the setting, and even adds some weird, horrifying lore to the games (a la forneus and his creations).
I remember seeing the Fates reveal trailer in a Nintendo Direct. The stoneborn was one of the things that really stood out & it made me feel like the game was gonna be crazy and have dense lore and mythology (this didn't age well, but the trailer WAS pretty good tbf. That would be an interesting topic, interesting promotional materials.)
I think the best implementation of monsters in FE is when they do interesting things. Less FE Fates spamming Faceless at you with their one predictable combat option, and more Sacred Stones' variety of creatures to fight.
Lore for the corrupted maybe. I think it has to do with how long someone was corrupted like ofcourse morioh mind was already gone but he wasn't corrupted long enough for the helmet gorwth to appear
The reason some Corrupted are better made than others is that generic masked soldiers are the norm, but Sombron/Rafal wants to replicate the complete likeness for max emotional damage. The only reason Morion was more Zombie-like was that Sombron was still weak when he made him and didn't have the 6 Emblems yet.
I'd like to throw in the Dolls from Fates that only appear in two or three maps on Conquest. They're basically the Hoshidan equivalent of Stoneborn, but where Stoneborn are explained as general dark magic, there's absolutely no explanation for why Hoshido is capable of creating what are essentially robots.
Umm, undead Dragons (or, as they are called, Dracolichs) also exist in Sacred Stones. Not only one is used by Lyon to mess with Myrrh, but they also appear in the Dungeons as the hardest enemies to beat.
I'm pretty sure in Engage it was said that Veyle was much better at making corrupted than Sombron, that's why for exemple hyacint is more lifelike than normal soldiers. don't quote me on it though, been a while since I played
Generally Fire Emblem, while not the biggest contender for making a morally grey story, still makes a effort to make a point that war is hellish, and one of the essentials of such an approach generally requires human enemies. Monsters, on the other hand, give a guilt-free extermination against them, and morally blackens whichever side uses them. Daein may be filled with darwinian racists, but their commanders run the gamut of arrogant leaders, glory-lust warriors, weirdly principled soldiers and somewhat hesitant combatants, while the corrupted under Sombron is mostly limited to marauding about and being twisted versions of dead characters. I'm not fully against monsters in the game, but I'd rather they give a particularly different experience than fighting humans, which together with the former reason makes me somewhat dislike the Risen/Vallite/Corrupted approach. Valentian Mogals multiply, Gorgons petrify, Mauthe Dogs are myrmidons with cavalry movement, Baels are armored mountain walkers, every 3H monster is a multiple person effort and the list goes on. Although at the end I still prefer them to take a 2nd fiddle role to actually human organizations, like the terrors being mostly used as spamable troops from the different cantors, the 3H monsters being warbeasts and creations employed sparingly by the enemies, or the sacred stones monsters being more of a symptom of the world going wrong with each stone broken.
You have a mistake regarding the corrupted. The rules of the corrupted aren’t different based on who gets corrupted, it’s WHO corrupts them. The game is extremely clear that Sombron CANNOT create sentient corrupted without the help of all 12 emblem rings, and only Veyle (And Rafal) is uniquely capable of being able to make sentient corrupted.
I really hated we got Corrupted Alear for all of one chapter and literally they are not different at all. The next map force starts anyway, so they really couldn't have Veyle be the main character for one chapter before doing the miracle?
Man, I know you've already been corrected on the corrupted thing like a half dozen times, so I was gonna skip mentioning it until you made that last remark at the end - comes across as incredibly lame tbh.
